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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=T J ColesAlastair Humphreys|title=Local|rating=5|genre=Travel |summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678}}{{Frontpage|author=Edel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The Great Brexit Swindle: Why revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the Megacountry demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Rich Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and Free Market Fanatics Conspired not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to Force Britain from ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Wilson|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the European Unionpath back to connection in a fractured world

|genre=Business and FinanceLifestyle|summary=My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''Have What is it you been mis-sold Brexit by posh men in sharp suits promising you free healthcareplan to do with your one wild and precious life? '' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! If so, you might be entitled to compensation..Precisely this.'' There wasn I't much could make me laugh on m lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the morning after the EU referendum but this spoof advert on Twitter managed itway I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. Only, it seems In her book that it wasntakes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't completely a joke - well apart from see that she acknowledges the bit source) she pushes us to think about compensation. In whether we really ''The Great Brexit Scandalare'' T J Coles looks at living the substantial core of free marketeers in life we want – the Conservative party who were determined to rid the UK of the Brussels red tape which was putting a brake on their activitiesbest life that we could be living. You might also know these views as Her answer is an unequivocal ''neoliberalismno, we are not'', an ideology which looks to deregulate markets and maximise profits. On the surface that doesnDon't sound badcare what you're doing, until she thinks you realise (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that the benefit will go to the people who we are already in the group which Coles refers to as the ''mega-rich'' and the losers will be working peoplenot.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905570813</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erin Moore1785633457|title= That's Not EnglishCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=It's not clear who first coined the expression ''divided Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a common language'' about Brits and Americans, but as this highly entertaining book demonstrates, it isn't our language that divides uspreference for slow travel. On As he neared his eightieth birthday the contrary the language simply reflects the divisions that exist. We tend to watch a lot of TV at home, but rarely find anything that totally engrosses us. As a result we tend to talk over a lot of TV. We play games with some of what we watch. One idea of those games is spotting anachronisms. Another is "would she ever have got exploring the job" – particularly fun with crime programmes that think it's ok for lab techs to have long free-flowing locks when doing evidence analysis or have Detective Sergeants who frankly wouldn't have passed their CV submission. A long-running one involves spotting the spread edges of British English England in American TV showsan electric car was not totally outrageous. Erin Moore explains why. Not directlyIn fact, indeed I'm not sure she even makes the connection – but the fact that there are it should be a lot more Brits in the higher echelons of US TV-making might just explain why CSI, NCIS, Law pleasant holiday for Clive and Order and a whole host of other shows will slip in words like wallethis wife, handbagJoan, boot (of a car), pavement…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701912</amazonuk>shouldn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris McIvor1529153050|title=The World is ElsewhereBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyHumour|summary=As a Country Director, Chris McIvor has worked for a number of years at Save Seeking some light relief from the Children. 'The World current political turmoil which is Elsewhere' covers his time there coming to seem more andmore like an adrenaline sport, his journeys across a number I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of countries2022''. It is a beautiful mix of autobiography and travel. It also captures his philosophical thoughts on international aid. He reflects on both Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the good and year: the bad with a very easy, conversational writing style that makes the book truly captivatingcartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. I read from cover Who can imagine what there will be to cover come in a single sitting, unusual for a reviewer. Such was the draw as he laid himself bare. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124346</amazonuk>2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anna BikontB0B7289HKQ|title= The Crime Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the SilenceTransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya|rating= 4|genre= HistoryTravel|summary= Where was your father? Where was your brotherKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, your mother, your uncle? These are by the questions Anna Bikont struggles way) wanted to ask during her investigation into spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a shocking act of violence committed against the Jewish community in Jedwabne during the summer of 1941good time to do it. The Crime and decision was made to ride the Silence weaves together journalsTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, interviews and pictures Virginia to share the story Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of a community torn apart by hatred and intoleranceit - in 2015. It is also a moving testament They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the dedication recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of Bikont, a challenge that it would be for most people who documents her struggle to find the truth with grace considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and dignity in the face of silence, rationalisation, and even anger, he was suffering from members of the Polish community who would rather not stir up the crimes of the pastearly-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592525</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Harrad1739593901|title=Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=Before reading Kate Harrad's thought provoking insight into bisexuality in Britain I have to confess to being as guilty of the misconceptions surrounding the subject as everyone else'Our future will be more complex than we expected. It is only when you read this collection Instead of essays flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and anecdotes, you realise the prejudice they face on automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a daily basis. The very nature couple of bisexuality is widely misunderstood by the heterosexual and gay communities alikeconfessions to make. As I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a result bisexuals find themselves marginalised, or, in few stories and then forget to return to the worst-case scenario, completely ostracisedbook. Far from having, There''the best of both worlds'', they are considered s got to be sitting on the fence, unable a very compelling hook to come to terms with their true sexualitykeep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it'Purple Prose'' tackles these myths and ill-informed ideas head on, and in s the process shows a community that does have many issues, just not technology which takes centre stage along with the ones that are being laid at their doorworld-building. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0996460160</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Wade Graham|title=Dream Cities It's human beings who fascinate me: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World|rating=4.5|genre= History|summary=Between 1950 technology and 2014 the world's urban population increased from 746 million to 3scape are purely incidental.9 billion. The urbanising trend is set to continue with the United Nations predicting that by the middle So, what did I think of the century 66% a book of us will be city dwellers, a massive six billion people. How have city planners and architects tried to cope with the recent surgetwenty-two science fiction short stories? How can they avoid repeating mistakes from the past? Both of those questions are considered in Dream Cities – Seven Urban Ideas That Shape The World Well, Wade Graham's excellent field guide to the modern worldI loved it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445659735</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=T J ColesJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Britain's Secret WarsThe Book of Hope

|genre=Politics and Society|summary= Britain's Secret Wars The done thing is to read a chilling and disturbing book to read. With all four corners of the globe hell-bent on conflict, oppression and injustice, our sanitised media portrays Britain, as a nation, responding way through before you sit down to harrowing global eventsreview it. What is chillingI’m making an exception here, in T J Coles because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, is that the political establishment, through the military and intelligence community appear I want to be complicit in instigating many of themcapture it as it hits me. What And it is disturbing is that the majority of information he hitting me. This beautiful book has used to form his analysis and conclusion is freely available and me in the public domaintears. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905570783</amazonuk>024147857X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Lightburn1788360737|title=An Annoyance of NeighboursArtivism: Life is Never Dull When You Have Neighbours!|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=You can choose your friends. You can't choose your relatives, but you can - usually - put some physical distance between you and them, but you can't choose your neighbours and once you're ''there'' it can be very expensive or even impossible to break the link. Now, I can't give you any advice on this thorny subject as it's more than thirty years since I've been The Battle for Museums in a position to have anything to complain about, but Angela Lightburn knows all there is to know. She's spent years collating all the different problems which people have with their neighbours and ways Era of improving the situation which don't involve a lengthy prison sentence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785892029</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPostmodernism|author= Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna|title= Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance Alexander Adams|rating= 3.52

|summary=Here we are, world, Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the midst of a new Renaissancesocial environment in which he develops’’. What will it Therefore, all art must bepolitical, to flounder or to flourish? even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The central aim Battle for Museum in the Era of this discourse Postmodernism’ is to highlight our current position, and the fact adamant that there art is freer when it is a choice to be madeart for art’s sake. The authors date 1990 as the dawn recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a new, more globalist and our present, Renaissanceprogressive regime. As with the last, this time warrants in a whole host of risks, but it also offers the opportunity to reap the benefits of the changes occurring across the globeOr at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147293637X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Xinran, Esther Tyldesley and David Dobson1398508632|title= Buy Me The SkyWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating= 3.5|genre= Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=''These single-sprout children are more precious than gold'', says It had been on the cards for a Chinese woman to the author. Buy Me The Sky asks what while but it's like to grow up as ''gold'' through Xinran's conversations with ten adults from was the first generation week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of China's eating only childrenwild food. In the highly informative introduction The end of November, she tells particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the story of a 22 year old male student whobest time to start, in 2010, ran over a female migrant worker in his carworld where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and then a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was so fearful a known habitat with a variety of the consequences that he brutally murdered terrains. She had electricity which allowed herto run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. He was tried and executed in She had a hugely divisive case with some seeing him as an evil perpetrator car - and othersfuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a victimplan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044731</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Bower1529149800|title=Broken VowsThings You Can Do: Tony Blair The Tragedy of PowerHow to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre=BiographyHome and Family|summary=In May 1997 we went to vote gleefully, sure that there was going to be We begin with a change from telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the tiredforest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, sleaze-ridden Conservative government we'd been sufferingunable to think of anything they could do. The Blairs' entry tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into Downing Street the following day - through crowds of well-wishers - fire. The animals laughed: what good was like a breath of fresh air and (perhaps fortunately) it would be years before that doing. ''I discovered that 'm doing the best I can'well wishers' had been bussed in for , said the eventhummingbird. Looking back now it seems And that, really, is the only way that our hopes for we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what the we can, however small that might be.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1638485216|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn'New Labourt matter' government could achieve were unreasonably high and there's . The murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, in the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of a special murder taking place in hell reserved for those who disappoint us in this waybut Floyd's death was an exception. The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I've often wondered quite how history will see Blair: Afghanistan ll ever forget and Iraq as well as his failure to deal with Gordon Brown would always sour his premiership for me, but to what extent could his achievements such as the Good Friday Agreement, protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a backlash against the minimum wage police - and higher welfare payments be balanced against his failures?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314201</amazonuk>not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter Popham Matthieu Aikins|title=The Lady and Naked Don't Fear the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for FreedomWater

|summary=Barely a day passes without Islamic militancy making headlines somewhere in It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the worldWater isn't actually fiction, and yet because it can be reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a hard subject Canadian citizen who decided to graspaccompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. The sudden rise of Islamic State There are tense moments and their campaign gripping accounts of shocking violence both in border crossings which had me on edge the Middle East and further afield has left many confused and fearful, and has provoked a sometimes extreme political responsewhole way through. In "The New Threat From Islamic Militancy", Jason Burke, But it's written with a journalist with two decades of experience reporting on haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the Islamic world, attempts reader to correct perfectly envisage the many misconceptions about Islamic extremism to give a true understanding of the threat we now faceenvironments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784701475</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Benedict Rogers1785633074|title= Burma: A Nation at the CrossroadsStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating= 34.5|genre= HistoryHumour|summary= Benedict Rogers Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is a human rights activist run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are Eton and journalist with an expert insight into Burma, gathered firstOxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS -hand on journeys to regions off who are the driving force behind the beaten trackgovernment. Burma is a country under We are in the iron rule privileged position of a succession having access to the memoirs of military regimesRafe Hubris, struggling with over half a century the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of suffering, much unknown 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to the wider international audiencewatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044464</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roger Scruton1846276772|title= Fools, Frauds and FirebrandsThe End of Bias: Thinkers of the New LeftHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating= 34.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary=''Thinkers of Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the New Left'' first came out in 1985, under Thatcherextent to which they suffer from it: it's governmentsimply a part of everyday life. British left-wing intellectuals gave it savage reviews White men will always come first. The publisher was threatened with a boycott and able will come before the book was withdrawn from bookshopsdisabled. Roger Scruton feels this caused his university career to decline. In the introduction Jobs, promotions, he says he is ''reluctant to return to higher salaries are the scene preserve of such a disasterthe white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it' Howevers rare that their views are heard, this is a subject he is clearly passionate about, having worked with underground networks in communist Europe that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and seen degrading for the destructive reality behind individuals on the fashionable receiving end of the bias but it''leftist ways of thinkings not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408187337</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Malala Yousafzai1529148251|title= I Am MalalaMisfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating= 5|genre= AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary= ''SheHow am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's a phenomenonas though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits' is my OH's response you need to any mention be in a certain frame of Malalamind. I canYou't disagree on some level, but what this re not going to read a book proves is that on another she is just of essays or a girlself-help book. One voice among many. ItYou're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's just that she decided 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to speak louder than mostprofessionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. We know about Malala because she got lucky. She got lucky because when she got shot by You might be ''reading'' the Taliban there were people nearby, doctors who got her book but you need to a hospital, and then luckier still because when her condition worsened, nearby there were western doctors with access ''listen'' to western facilities the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and she was flown to the UK for treatmentyou'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Metcalf0008350388|title=From Skedaddle We Need to Selfie: Words of the Generation|rating=3.5|genre=Trivia|summary=I have to go a roundabout way to introducing this book, so bear with me. It stems partly from dictionaries and the etymology of the language we use, but more so if anything from a different couple of books, and their ideas of generations. The authors of those posited the idea that all those archetypical generations – the Baby Boomers, the Millennials, and those before, in between and since – have their own cyclical pattern, and the history of humanity has been and will be formed by the interplay of just four different kinds, running (with only one exception) in regular order. I don't really hold much store by that, and I certainly didn't know we'd started one since the Millennials – who the heck decides such things, for one? ''Somebody must have put out an order'', as someone here says of something else. But in the same way as generations get defined by collective persons unknown, so do words – and those words are certainly a clue to what was important, predominant and of course spoken in each decade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019992712X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTalk About Money|author= Danny Rogers|title=Campaigns that Shook the World: The Evolution of Public Relations|rating= 5|genre= Business and Finance |summary= I dithered about how to begin this review. On one hand I thought I should probably start by saying that I have a work related interest in marketing and communications. On the other hand, Danny Rogers has written a book which appealed to me on several levels. Campaigns are about psychology and storytelling – which of course leads us into branding but also feature critical issues around concept delivery. In short, I was looking forward to reading this for many reasons – and it didn’t disappoint.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749475099</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jill Leovy|title=GhettosideOtegha Uwagba|rating=3.5

|summary=There are enough LA rappers around ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to attest that living be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a black man in South Central is no easy taskbook by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman. '' Dismiss these urban lyricists at your peril, as crude they may be, but ''GhettosideThe Bookseller'' will soon inform 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the disbeliever UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that life on their children would have the streets of LA is hardbest education possible. With There was always a 40 times higher chance painful awareness of being murdered than money although this did not translate into a white person in America, what made the LA shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the 80s through family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to the late 2000s such a dangerous private school in London and then a place to live for young black men?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700762</amazonuk>at New College, Oxford.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ben CoatesRichard Brook|title= Why the Dutch are DifferentUnderstanding Human Nature: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands User's Guide to Life|rating= 4.5|genre= TravelLifestyle|summary= I know Holland am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way everyone that it doesnow. Pancakes and windmills and Pot, oh my. But I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give ita favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s one of .p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the few European countries Ibook, even if it doesn't always turn out that way''ve never lived in for any period of time, and so ] – but also because it is a book I was intrigued needed to know moreread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>185788633X</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma Marriott1787332098|title= I Used How to Know That: History|rating= 4|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I've picked up Love Animals in a few things over the years, most notably from English language text books while TEFLing abroad (there's nothing like an exciting lesson on Guy Fawkes to have a classroom of Mexicans wondering why we so love to celebrate a terrorist attack that didn't happen). But I have gaps, of this I am sure, and I thought to get a basic understanding of, well, the basics that we all should know, a quick read of this book wouldn't hurt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434488</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHuman-Shaped World|author= Emma Marriott|title= I Should Know That - Great BritainHenry Mance|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I am a dreadful Brit. I'm better at the geography of Colombia than the UK (true story, I had to google where Essex was the other day). Despite 17 years of full time education in the UK, I probably wouldn't pass a simple citizenship test. Which is a little embarrassing, really. So when this book came up for review I thought I'd have it, both for interest and as a subtle way to brush up on my Britain. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434313</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tony Wilkinson|title=Capitalism and Human Values|rating=4

|summary=Tony Wilkinson has a first class honours degree ''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in philosophy and has worked rubbish bins, elephants in government service zoos, and investment management - millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the ideal background next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for a consideration of capitalism cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the human values which propel sake of it. It's not too long ago - certainly within Essentially that quote sums up my lifetime attitude to animals - that religion largely dictated and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of humans and the values held by individualscompany of animals, but true religious belief now seems to be I would probably choose the exception rather than the ruleanimals. In its place we have a society for whom consumerism is the driving force - and a widening gap between those who can afford I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to consume and those who cannotstop me but I was initially reluctant. As Wilkinson says ''Getting I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and spending have come I needed to define who we areeither do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407881</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke Gittos1523092734|title=Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville A Women's Guide to Ched EvansClaiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=3.5

|summary=It is said ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that we live every woman needs in a rape cultureher life. Again and again and again. Tabloid headlines scream that '' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the number life of rapes choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is on to live the increase and that life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the police and reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the courts are failing news, ''A Women's Guide to deal with the problemClaiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. ThereNow - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's a belief that something far more effective, but discussion at the rate of conviction is consistently lowmoment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. ItI's also said ve always thought that sexism and misogyny have created a society in which rape is a regular occurrencewomen need to rise above this, frequently not reported to the police and that society at large doesnbe people who don't really careneed protection, people who claim their own space. Luke GittosIf all women did this, a solicitor practicing criminal law, argues those few men who are violent to women would realise that these claims we are based on myths and misunderstandings of the statistics and not just an easy target to be used to prove that far from ''improving'' the way that rape and sexual assaults they are dealt with it's actually working against the interests of victimsbig men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845408373</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna KrienPolly Barton|title=Night Games: A Journey to the Dark Side of SportFifty Sounds

|summary=Ian McMillanWhere do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, poet, radio presenter, poet in residence at Barnsley Football Club and professional Yorkshireman, is worried. It has crossed his mind that he might not be with the question ''Yorkshire enoughWhy Japan?'', given that his father was not from GodJapan has been on my radar for a while and if the world hadn's Own Countyt gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but was a Scot by birthI am not hopeful. In a series of discursions on And like Barton, I don't know the subject of Yorkshire he attempts answer to distil the essence question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the county and to understand what question in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being a Yorkshireman means. To this end we accompany him through towns and cities, the Cudworth Probus Clubamong other things, Ilkley Moor and elicit contributions from Mad Geoff the barber, a kazoo-playing train guard and four Saddleworth council workers in search sound of a mattress. Amongst others. All of Yorkshire life is here. Including Yorkshire puddings''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959950</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= XinranStephen Fabes|title= Buy Me The SkySigns of Life|rating= 5|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel|summary= I started reading Xinran thirteen years agowas brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and whilst do it. I havenalso didn't read all inherit the kind of her bookssteady nerve, every one ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have read has at some point survived if I had me in tearsbeen gifted with the requisite 'bottle'. This one was no differentIn order words I'm not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846044715</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ray Barron Woolford1504321383|title=Food Bank BritainSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as ''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a smartly-dressed young man foraged in waste bins for food, less than a mile from the riches of the City of London''. Intrigued as to  This was what Louisa Pateman was going on he went brought up to askbelieve. The man explained to him that heIt wasn'd just got a job after two years of being unemployed, but t unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be five weeks before he was paidbest for her. He couldn't claim benefits as he It was in work and had no savings, so reinforced by all those fairy tales where the bins had to be his source of food and girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the following week he would have handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to walk to work as he couldnbe brought up ''without''t afford the faresexpectation that they will marry and have children. That It was the inspiration for the [http://wwwa belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.wecarefoodbanks.co.uk/ We Care Food Bank].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099308091X</amazonuk>